To better understand how female employees are flowing into and up the executive pipeline at this management consulting firm, global managing director Dominic Barton compares their high-level representation against a set of internal goals each quarter, joined by the senior partners in charge of each global region. In related discussions, the directors of the firm’s women’s initiative meet with office leaders to assess the progress of female managers on the partner track and locate in-house sponsors for those who need them. The firm’s 1.5-day Pathway to Partner program, held in New York City, finds senior partners facilitating discussions among small groups of female engagement managers and/or associate principals, with a focus on helping them define their leadership vision. It’s part of a larger women’s curriculum that fosters skill-building and promotes a sense of community at every level.

Global Managing Director: Dominic Barton

Director: Michelle Jarrard

% of senior managers who are women: 25%

% of corporate executives who are women: 11%

% of promotions to manager, senior manager and corporate executive positions that went to women: 26%

% of the top 10% of the company’s earners who are women: 14%

% of corporate executives with profit-and-loss responsibility who are women: 10%

% of the executives running divisions with revenues of more than a billion dollars who are women: --

% of executives who report directly to the CEO who are women: N/A

% of the members of the board of directors who are women: 7%

% of female workforce participating in mentoring: --